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<span class=large>ZECHARIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 11
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Zechariah speaks Messianically: Messiah shall be betrayed for thirty pieces of silver—It shall be cast to the potter in the house of the Lord.
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Open</span> thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
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Howl, <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/11/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Nahum 2: 3.">fir</a> tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye <sup>b</sup><a href="zech/11/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 27: 6.">oaks</a> of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.
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&#182; <i>There is</i> a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
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Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter;
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Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/11/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Guilt.">guilty</a>: and they that sell them say, Blessed <i>be</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; for I am <sup>b</sup><a href="zech/11/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Treasure.">rich</a>: and their own shepherds pity them not.
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For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver <i>them.</i>
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And I will feed the flock of slaughter, <i>even</i> you, O poor of the flock.  And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/11/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 11: 14.">Bands</a>; and I fed the flock.
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Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
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Then said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
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&#182; And I took my staff, <i>even</i> Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
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And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/11/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR who watched for me.">that</a> waited upon me knew that it <i>was</i> the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And I said unto them, If ye think good, give <i>me</i> my price; and if not, forbear.  So they weighed for my price <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/11/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Betrayal of.">thirty</a> <i>pieces</i> of <sup>b</sup><a href="zech/11/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="Luke 22: 5 (3-6).">silver</a>.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto me, Cast it unto the <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/11/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 27: 7 (3-10).">potter</a>: a goodly price that I was <sup>b</sup><a href="zech/11/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about.">prised</a> at of them.  And I took the thirty <i>pieces</i> of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Then I cut asunder mine other staff, <i>even</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/11/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Zech. 11: 7.">Bands</a>, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
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&#182; And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
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For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, <i>which</i> shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
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Woe to the idol <sup>a</sup><a href="zech/11/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 23: 1.">shepherd</a> that leaveth the flock!  the sword <i>shall be</i> upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
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